"I would go to the pub on Christmas Eve at 12, and at 4 — one hour before the shops shut — I would start my Christmas shopping. And I had the 60-minute frenzied shop. I was in [a sports store] trying on some trainers for my brother and having a bit of a dance around, drunk obviously.

"There was a lady staring at me and so I blew her a kiss, and gave her a sort of little wink. It turned out that she was the production manager of Byker Grove. She said, 'I think you're quite lovely'. I said, 'I do too!'

"She invited me in, I did an audition and they gave me a part, which I haven't seen since I did it — which was 20 years ago."

You know what's coming next, don't you? Of course Graham Norton had a classic Byker Grove clip to show us — watch young Charlie break into the high-pressure world of modelling below:

"Are you in awe? Don't be nervous," Charlie joked as the audience chuckled at his early work. "I'm still the same-old Charlie!"

Charlie's definitely in good company — Byker Grove also gave early breaks to the likes of Emmerdale's Chelsea Halfpenny, Mamma Mia! writer Catherine Johnson and even Oscar-winning The King's Speech director Tom Hooper.